Amnesty International explains why it is illegal to make refugees wait in Mexico while their asylum claims are processed.

Putin followed the bullshitter in suspending the INF nuclear treaty.

This does not make it impossible to resolve the dispute, but I've seen it suggested that they want an arms race.

A former president of Facebook regrets what he did to make it lure in so many people for Facebook to use.

The last statement quoted in the article is not correct: not "all" of us are ensnared by Facebook. It is not hard to refuse to have a Facebook account. To block its other ways of surveilling people, you need a browser that blocks tracking tokens and you need to reject the nonfree apps. (With few or no exceptions, the apps in the commercial app stores, whether gratis or paid, are nonfree.)

In China, every electric car is required to report its location continuously to a monitoring center.

Does anyone know how this works? I would guess it uses a cellular modem, but I would like to be sure.

The US and Europe do not have a law requiring this, but "connected" cars do something more or less equivalent, and the government can get that data. We should see the totalitarian surveillance of China as a warning for what will happen everywhere — unless we fight and stop it.

The FBI warned about the supposed terrorist threat from imaginary organized "pro-choice extremists." The FBI invented this to create a false image of balance against the real danger of violent anti-abortion extremists.

This fits a general pattern of downplaying the real violent extremists of the right wing and persecuting nonviolent activists on the left.